I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.
I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.
Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.
It’s mostly just you have to convince yourself that there’s nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!
Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof that the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense – Mr Nobody on the fundamental philosophy of the Brotherhood of DADA.
Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.
A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries.
Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.
It’s hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who’s a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.
I love ‘Batman.’ I love the Adam West ‘Batman.’ I love the animated ‘Batman.’ The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation, which is what makes that character so brilliant and why it’s survived so many different media.
I don’t like to think of my readership as ‘fans,’ a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I’m uncomfortable with.
I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.
I’m lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I’m happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It’s probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.
Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it’s just about turning into metaphor whatever’s going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.
There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don’t get done because they’re not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.
I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.
The thing that’s been exciting about ‘Superman’ is to see how the character has developed through generations.
I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I’ve known. And I’m not a great comic reader.
I guess my inspiration is this – I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to ‘Batman’ was real and is part of this one guy’s life.
This is the end of our sentence.
I think any writer coming on to ‘Batman’ should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.